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    in the United States that involves guns every year. People are using them for hunting‚ target shooting‚ self-defense‚ and they use it for murder. The number of times a murder happens each year by somebody using a gun is pretty big. Many people are wanting to have guns banned or have them only for self-defense. It is a big problem for people‚ because they are just out on the street or in a store and the next thing they would get shot and killed. I think that if guns were to be banned‚ they should just

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    Criminalizing peaceful protests to become illegal is a major issue that has not become fully acknowledge by people. Ten states that have proposed this law are: Colorado‚ Indiana‚ Iowa‚ Michigan‚ Minnesota‚ Missouri‚ North Carolina‚ North Dakota‚ Virginia‚ and Washington. Although Washington is not the only democratic state of these ten states‚ it is drawn more attention to it as to why it is considering proposing a law. With a new Republican president in office and majority of both‚ the House of

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    Things I Carry

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    The things I carry are the guns I will never fire. I’ll never receive training from extremely attractive girl instructors on operating AK47s‚ M4s‚ and M16s. I’ll never drive a tank to rescue hostage soldiers from the battleground or ever lead a special mission in the Gaza strip. I’ll never be able to pilot a plane‚ and I’ll never experience the abominable disgust from eating frozen‚ stale corn three times a day. The things I carry are inevitably overwhelming questions. Almost every day I receive

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    Guns

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    Guns Guns and gun crimes have been around for hundreds of years and no talk of banning guns from citizens. It is our right to bear arms. Citizens should not be banned from owning firearms because of a few people’s mistakes; it’s a form of protection. Also‚ criminals will always be able to find guns‚ so it would be a waste of everyone’s time to try and ban them from everyone. Yes‚ most violent crimes are caused by guns‚ and the rates have been higher. However‚ it is a protection. In the Balanced

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    novel Private Peaceful and the short story "The Best Christmas Present in the World" are both by Michael Morpurgo‚ however the author is not the only thing that connects the two. When looking at these stories you realise just how similar they are‚ mainly the characters‚ plot and many of the themes. However‚ these stories are also very different‚ and the main characters face challenges that are different to each other yet hold just as much importance. Tommo‚ our narrator in Private Peaceful‚ faces difficult

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    My Peaceful Place

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    1 ............... Ms. Brown English 073 18 September 2012 My Peaceful Place Near Point Fermin Park there is a place. It’s a place where I go to get out of my house to cool down‚ in a bad mood‚ or there to think about the positive things. When I come to this place I feel free and at ease with myself. I feel like no one can disturb me‚ nothing can faze me‚ and nothing can make me upset when I am here. When I am here I feel the nice‚ warm sun on my face and the breeze blowing through

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    About Linda Crew and her reasons for writing this The author of Children of the River‚ Linda Crew‚ expresses her emotions and brings her past experiences into her writings. A lot of authors base their books on personal experiences; Linda Crew is just an example of one. Linda Crew went to the University of Oregon‚ since she lived in Oregon for a while before writing Children of the River‚ which could be a major factor in why it took place in Oregon. She then got married‚ had children

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    I believe that peaceful civil disobedience is beneficial to society. The main reason I believe this is because it brings issues to light that the public would not have known about otherwise. It makes headlines‚ and if it is truly an issue worth changing then the public will make their opinion known and‚ if things work out‚ the underlying issue will be solved. The downside being that the civil disobedience may have harmed business or government briefly by breaking the law. I think that the trade off

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    Why Kids Should Shoot Guns “When I shoot I think it’s so much more fun than playing with anything else that’s in my room.” Said 7 year old Vanessa Aguilar. People claim that kids shouldn’t shoot guns‚ and that learning young isn’t helping at all. But actually kids who learn younger are actually more responsible and respectful with and towards guns. I believe kids who learn younger actually keep their learnings with them‚ if I’m honest I probably shot my first gun when I was 5‚ I had my father

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    (10-15) Emmanuella:“Faith in the Atonement Being Written in our Hearts” / General Relief Society Meeting talk by Linda K. Burton. Footprints in the Sand |   |   |         One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. |              Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky. |                   In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. |                        Sometimes there were two sets of footprints‚ |                            other times there

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